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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.
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130211
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1. On the morning of her eighteenth birthday, Eve woke to find herself transformed into a gigantic chess piece made of zeros and ones.2. Eve gazed so long at her smartphone that she found herself falling into it.3. She fell for a time that may have been short or long or…
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130252
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At 11 pm, it is 87 degrees and I sit in front of the air conditioner, eating oatmeal. The oats aren't soft enough, but it is sugary and fills me. Outside, the city hovers at the edge of a brown out, people sweating hopelessly inside small boxes. In Utah, it was cold…
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130200
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A sequelae to Dostoevsky's renowned liver disorder presents itself to a new age.
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130231
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There is a the reason for the theft of people and the melting of gold
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130200
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Empire America
The year is 1929, New York City. Two hundred years ago the American Revolution failed, its founding fathers put on trial and executed for crimes against the crown. Now, as the Great World War rages without end, the American colonies of G
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130231
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ghosts of the previous owners who leave a trail of whispers
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130254
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They have their own homes to fill with bought and sold dreams. Their own babies to care for and feed. The world is big enough to have more layers than you can ever imagine. The lights will show you a way when you have turned too dark for your own…
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130221
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Life to her had come to resemble one of those mazes you find in a puzzle book, inscrutable except by those with exceptional IQs. Mary would run her pencil down one path in search of the passage that might penetrate to the exit, then another, but the paths
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130200
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Should probably be faster at the cash register
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130220
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My brother Herb married his high school sweetheart right after completing college. This was a girl named Beryl, whom he'd met originally in Mr. Reinert's marching band at York High School in Elmhurst. I remember one day in particular in the middle of the
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130287
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He invited her in for a Martini and she graciously accepted.
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13021012
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All the things that are his.
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130242
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I was in life, in my dream. I was feeling around underneath your clothing. My fingers were shining in the underwater afterlife of memory, searching for those lovely nipple-sized mollusks. I lived in a land somewhere between the past and the future. Now
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130276
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130265
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I found a diseased fish / wedged between some boulders near the pier
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130254
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Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone crack open
an Old Bushmill’s and offer John Huston a pull.
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130211
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The Bird King is trapped behind the mirrors. Sometimes you'll see a hand, a wing, fluttering in a dark space. You may even see his breath, a pulse of mist in a corner of the glass. But don't ever smash his silvered prison. Don't ever let him out and into the world.*****O…
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130243
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—Strip down to your shorts. Put on this gown, open to the rear.
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130233
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OhYou like quiet nights in?I do tooBut we might not get alongbecauseOnly part of youwants silence
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130132
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a dim wood-paneled stair leading to the ladies’ rooms, candle-lit.
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130152
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Don’t forget, I’ve watched the evil you’ve done to the lawn for years, not to mention the chaos you’ve made of the woodshed. Don’t you remember me showing you how to properly stack the wood?
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130121
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In the ’70′s, Bigfoot was romantically linked with Farrah Fawcett, spotted in an Arkansas 7-11 with Elvis, and tabbed the front-runner to be Secretary of the Interior had Gerald Ford defeated Jimmy Carter.
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130121
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...to know they are not alone
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130100
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Try and put my bones back in
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130121
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He stood in front of her. They stood eye to eye. "You aren't supposed to look me in the eye. If I were anyone else you would be smacked down on the ground right now. Treat me as you would a lover, your master."
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130120
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her skin was delicate, fragile, that old woman skin that appears to be translucent.the rip caused by the knife opened it up like tissue paper. blood welled for a moment, then poured out with real purpose.this was the delight he found in old ladies.. the scent of their…
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130163
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so many bills to pay
the list keeps shedding its skin like a snake
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130152
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The increasingly furrowed lines on his forehead made her stomach clench.
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